James eoughan



(No Model.)

J .ROUGHAN.

GOAL BARROW.

No 300,513. Patented June 17, 1884.

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WITNESSES 4% 1 I UNITED STATES FFICE.

PATENT JAlilES ROUGHAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ROUG-HAN BROTHERS, OF SAME PLACE.

COAL-BAR ROW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,513, dated June 17, 1884.

Application filed February 27, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it nuty concerrt:

Be it known that I, JAMIES ROUGHAN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coal Hand-Barrows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of hand barrows known as coal-barrows, used principally in loading and unloading vessels, and adapted to hold large quantities of coal. They have been constructed heretofore with ends or tail-pieces hinged at or near their upper edges to the sides of the barrow. The barrow is dumped by tipping up its forward end, the tailpiece swinging outwardly, so as to allow the coal to slide out at the rear end. It often happens that the coal, especially when in large lumps, catches and clogs between the swinging. tail-piece and the floor of the barrow, violently tipping up the front end and handles, and as these barrows are frequently in use on tracks and walk s-say twenty feet from the groundthe great weight of the coal thus collected at the rear end of the barrow often serves to precipitate it to the ground below, to the damage or ruin of the barrow, and has even in numerous instances carried the operator with it, sometimes seriously injuring him. I obviate this difificulty by constructing a coal-barrow with an entirely open end or reari. 6., with floor, sides, and front piece only, This is prac ticable, as the floor inclines upwardly at aconsiderable angle from the front, so that in practice no coal will ever spill out at the rear end until the barrow is'duinped. 3

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the barrow at rest. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same in operation.

A represents the floor, B the sides, C the front end piece, and D the frame provided with the handles D. The frame D projects slightly to the rear of the box, and forms a support for the barrow when dumped. The 4 floor A is inclined upward toward its rear by means of the prop E. The rear is entirely open, as above stated, and the floor is extended back beyond the upper edge of the sides for the purpose of adding to the capacity of the 5 barrow.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described coal handbarrow, cou- 55 sisting of the inclined bottom A, sides B, front G, and open rear end, combined with the frame D D and prop E.

JAMES ROUGHAN. XVitnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMs, J. M. HARTNETT. 

